On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:20:56AM -0500, Eric.Melville (Exchange) wrote:

 > I'm looking to run this here (post-heat-death) Multia as an NFS server for a
 > LAN. There is really no reason to have a monitor and/or keyboard attached to
 > it. Has anyone attempted to run a Multia w/o a keyboard? According to
 > multiple (linux-related) sources, running w/o a keyboard will blow the
 > motherboard (!) I see no mention of this in the NetBSD Multia FAQ. I am
 > guessing that someone was running w/o a keyboard and happened to experiance
 > heat-death at that time. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Uh, I ran a multia w/ no keyboard/mouse/display as a router for the
ISDN line at my previous reseidence for several months.

I can see no reason for the lack of a keyboard to kill a multia.  It
uses a standard junk i/o chip used on many other alpha systems that
do not have that problem.  The linux information is simply incorrect,
as far as I can tell.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>